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Harlem

Harlem is a large neighborhood in the northern section of the New York Cityborough of Manhattan. Since the 1920s, Harlem has been known as a major African-American residential, cultural and business center. Originally a Dutch village, formally organized in 1658, it is named after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands. Harlem's history has been defined by a series of economic boom-and-bust cycles, with significant population shifts accompanying each cycle.

African-American residents began to arrive en masse in 1905, with numbers fed by the Great Migration. In the 1920s and 1930s, Central and West Harlem were the focus of the "Harlem Renaissance", an outpouring of artistic work without precedent in the American black community. However, with job losses in the time of the Great Depression and the deindustrialization of New York City after World War II, rates of crime and poverty increased significantly. Harlem's black population peaked in the 1950s. In 2008, the United States Census found that for the first time since the 1930s, less than half of residents were black, and black residents only counted for 40% of the population.

The piece lasts for around fifteen minutes and exists in Ellington's large jazz orchestra version as well as a full symphonic version orchestrated by Luther Henderson. Both versions begin with a distinctive trumpet solo which intones the word 'Harlem'.

History

Harlem started in Tucson, AZ before relocating to Austin where they generated a mountain of attention, both with their live shows and their self-issued 2008 album Free Drugs ;-), mastered by Nathan Sabatino at Loveland Recording Studios.

Matador signed the Austin, Texas trio to a multi-record, worldwide deal. Harlem recorded their 2nd album in the summer of 2009.Hippies, was released on April 6, 2010. It was recorded by Mike McHugh at "The Distillery" in Costa Mesa, California. As of April 2012, the band is on an indefinite hiatus as all members are busy with other projects.

Harlem

Harlem is a large neighborhood in the northern section of the New York Cityborough of Manhattan. Since the 1920s, Harlem has been known as a major African-American residential, cultural and business center. Originally a Dutch village, formally organized in 1658, it is named after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands. Harlem's history has been defined by a series of economic boom-and-bust cycles, with significant population shifts accompanying each cycle.

African-American residents began to arrive en masse in 1905, with numbers fed by the Great Migration. In the 1920s and 1930s, Central and West Harlem were the focus of the "Harlem Renaissance", an outpouring of artistic work without precedent in the American black community. However, with job losses in the time of the Great Depression and the deindustrialization of New York City after World War II, rates of crime and poverty increased significantly. Harlem's black population peaked in the 1950s. In 2008, the United States Census found that for the first time since the 1930s, less than half of residents were black, and black residents only counted for 40% of the population.

Making the Met revisits the painful history of Harlem on My Mind, the museum’s 1969 exhibition about an epicentre of African-American cultural life—an ethnographic presentation of photography that failed to include a single painting or sculpture by an African-American artist....

This weekend, Louver’s Frieze presence is devoted to a solo presentation of her newest sculpture and painting, with Chaos in the Kitchen... Though famous for her sculptures and paintings, Saar tells the Weekly how she “grew up around printmaking,” as her mother was and is a prolific printer as well as assemblage sculptor....

March 20 will focus on "HarlemNights," celebrating the culture of New York’s historical Harlem through the graffiti while listening to cool jazz, and April 18's topic will be "Bird Nerds," where participants will create watercolor paintings...Little Picassos allows young artists ages 5-7 to paint with oil, pastels, watercolor and mixed media....

Making matters worse, in December 1997, he was arrested in Harlem for weapons possession and wearing a bulletproof vest after being stopped by police for a traffic violation ... and Ma$e, which reportedly left the HarlemWorld rapper with a broken jaw, during the second verse....

Washington is a monumental figure in Leutze’s painting, occupying a different plane from his men and defining history through his actions ... He eventually became a leading figure in the HarlemRenaissance and early in his career started to create paintings in series that address history and culture from an African American perspective....

...York morals, or the young woman from Eatonville in “Muttsy” who takes in the Harlem scene and observes that the “ladies” back home “didn’t put powder and paint on the face.” Lilya Barkman “fled the boredom” of small-town South Carolina, only to have her heart broken in Harlem....

The migration from South to North is a puzzle for some characters, like the wife in "The Country in the Woman" who sees her husband succumb to New York morals, or the young woman from Eatonville in "Muttsy" who takes in the Harlem scene and observes that the "ladies" back home "didn't put powder and paint on the face."...